Example sentences of "[adj] be that [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is interesting is that you had a kind of real intellectual respect for intellectual content and expertise and professionalism in a way that previous programmers perhaps have n't . |
| 2 | One slight advantage of all this was that nobody had time to consider the fate of L Detachment . |
| 3 | The reason for this was that they had a different view of tradition from the locals and this caused them to turn to ‘ progressivist ’ ideas and to new ventures put forward by planners in order to effect an entry upon the local political scene . |
| 4 | The problem for the British was that they had seriously miscalculated their own positions . |
| 5 | What was different was that there had been something else mixed in with the raw hunger blazing in his eyes . |
| 6 | Another was that he had been elected to the Students ' Council at his school , Westmount High , and to its Board of Publishers . |
| 7 | What was unforgivable was that he had systematically lied to me — and I had let him do it . |
| 8 | What was equally obvious was that he had no intention of compouding his error with any further mistakes . |
| 9 | The remarkable thing about it all is that he had already caused significant bad debts when his Pergamon Press failed in the seventies . |
| 10 | But how many 's that they had , nine ? |
| 11 | We got on very well together and suddenly began to realise how strange and curious it all was that we had gone to separate schools . ’ |
| 12 | What made it more extraordinary was that everything had conspired against them , from the Home Unions committee 's refusal to grant them official Lions status right through to the kick-off . |
| 13 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 14 | What was unique about the BBC governors in the eighties was that you had Rees-Mogg as vice-chairman and Stuart Young as chairman — two open , committed supporters of the present Government . |
| 15 | What was evident was that they had all expected Comrade Andrew to join them , even Alice , who knew he disapproved . |
| 16 | The first is that nobody had really analysed and spelt out the interrelated series of planning and policy decisions which changing a school curriculum entails ; the essential links between the processes of curriculum planning and implementation ; the costs of change . |
| 17 | What was not apparent was that there had been a total flight instrument failure because of a complete electrical breakdown while the aircraft was flying in cloud . |
| 18 | That was bad enough but what made it worse was that I had n't the faintest idea what was wrong with them . |
| 19 | What made it worse was that he had a terrible cold at the time . |
| 20 | What made it even worse was that she had to pretend to enjoy it . |
| 21 | this is rather what what it , makes it difficult is that I had a copy as well farce right , but do n't say farcical . |
| 22 | Much remains to be learned of their activities , but what is certain is that they had converts in high places — notably Edward Wood ( of whom more anon ) , Leo Amery , and Lord Hailey of African Survey fame and immense Colonial Office influence — and that through their publication of a journal widely respected for its seriousness they kept before the eyes of the political establishment the idea of a new kind of empire . |
| 23 | What was even more worrying was that she had never cried and even when he remonstrated with her and told her bluntly that their two children were dead and buried she just smiled and turned away . |
| 24 | It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink . |
| 25 | That was that we had last weekend . |
| 26 | he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather |
| 27 | Of one thing she was convinced , however , and that was that she had actually regressed to a previous life and that it had not simply been the work of her imagination . |
| 28 | A recurrent criticism of historical approaches in physical geography up to the 1950s was that they had insufficient knowledge of environmental processes to fall back upon which could enhance the understanding of landscape . |